TagsTagsHere's the inevitable second thread to cover the latest demonstration of Republican Party principles. Man, they really hate the government they want to lead, don't they?
Finally, someone other than LGF is paying attention to the GOP's criminally stupid anti-science attitudes and their media enablers. Thank you, Jon Stewart: Video You can find a full transcript of the above segment here. Also a must-see is this Aasif Mandvi piece from the same show in which he interviews disgustingly ...
Aasif Mandvi, Jon Stewart, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Denial, Fox News
An overwhelming majority of the world's environmental scientists are sounding an increasingly desperate alarm about the impending consequences of global warming, but one of the two major US political parties has decided to loudly ignore reality: Whatever Happened to Global Warming? IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Republican Party, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science
www.blogherenow.net Republican leaders have become fond of denying well-supported facts in the last few years, including such well-confirmed phenomena as (at least partly human-induced) climate change, the proven safety of vaccines, and of course evolutionary theory. What seems to be guiding them, at least unconsciously, is (roughly) the following form of ...
Republican Party, Anti-Science, Logic, Modus Tollens, Evolution, Vaccines, Climate Change, Denial
This excellent video by "potholer54" (the YouTube screen name for writer Peter Hadfield) is for all those right wingers who keep emailing and showing up in LGF comments gloating about a paper from CERN that "totally destroys the myth of global warming" (to quote one of more than a dozen ...
Anti-Science, Denial, Right Wing, CERN, Cosmic Rays, Video, Climate Change, Global Warming
Fox News seems to have decided to make an effort to appear "fair and balanced" on the subject of climate change; lately they've been bringing Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") out to argue in favor of reality (while the hosts laugh at him and ask idiotic questions). Charles Payne really sums ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Denial, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Fox News, Idiocy, Bill Nye
Climate change denial websites immediately jumped all over a recent paper from the CERN CLOUD project, about the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. I knew they had jumped, actually, before I even read "Watts Up With That" or any of the other blogs dedicated to discrediting climate science, because ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, CERN, Cosmic Rays
The libertarians are really distinguishing themselves this week with their comments on Hurricane Irene. First we had Ron Paul pining for that bygone year of 1900 when there was no FEMA and tens of thousands were left to rot where they died. Good times! And now we have Patrick Michaels (a senior ...
Hurricane Irene, Patrick Michaels, Climate Change, Global Warming, National Weather Service, Denial, Exxonmobil
The National Science Foundation has concluded yet another investigation into the work of climate scientist Michael Mann (creator of the famous "hockey stick" temperature graph you see above), whose research and personal character have been targeted in a years-long, relentless smear campaign by energy industry front groups and the right ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Michael Mann
It's always fun when right wing bloggers encounter a story about scientists doing what scientists do, and promptly turn into a mob of shrieking monkeys flinging poo at something they don't understand. Today, nearly the entire right wing blogosphere is moronically piling onto a story from the Guardian about a research ...
Right Wing, Anti-Science, Ignorance, Global Warming, Denial, Howler Monkeys
The world's plants and animals are migrating as the climate changes. “The more warming there’s been in an area, the more you would expect a species to move, and the more they have moved,” said Chris D. Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of York in England, who led ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
One of the latest front groups organized by the Koch Brothers has the lofty-yet-innocuous sounding name, "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," and Think Progress has a photo of the ugly anti-scientific literature they're distributing: At Koch’s ALEC Conference: ‘The Many Benefits Of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment’. Also see: VIDEO: Security Guards At ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Koch Brothers
The Fox News anti-science agenda sometimes results in hilariously stupid moments like this one, in which a Fox News anchor reacts to the discovery of volcanoes on the moon by saying: Does it go, you know, anywhere close to the climate change debate that's under way here on Earth, I ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Denial, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Fox News, Idiocy
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has reportedly asked his lawyer how many people he killed in his rampage. The lawyer, Geir Lippestad, also said that Breivik took some sort of drugs to be "strong, efficient, and awake." In addition to his "counter-jihad" ideology (taken directly from the hateful writing of ...
Norway, Oslo, Anders Behring Breivik, Climate Change, Denial
Lately, the right wing Power Line blog has been angling for a position as one of the prime sources of climate change denial in the blogosphere. They have a lot of competition, because denying the science of climate change is absolutely universal in the right wing blogosphere. But today they make ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Monty Python
In the past couple of weeks, right wing media and blogs have been gleefully trumpeting the latest absurd climate change denial claim -- that the Sun is entering a period of low activity, and this will trigger a "mini-ice age." I haven't checked all of them, but every right wing ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
Al Gore's piece for Rolling Stone has already provoked a chorus of ignorant derision from the bleachers, but I recommend it as a call to action while we still have time, in the face of the Republican Party and the right wing's Climate of Denial. ... Scientists have been warning ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Al Gore
Here's a classic example of the bizarre reality-denying cognitive dissonance of right wing climate change deniers. In the Minnesota State Senate, one of the loudest voices against accepting the scientific reality of climate change is Michael Jungbauer, who's known for making grand pronouncements about "not being convinced" by the science, and ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Minnesota, Heartland Institute
It's become both an article of faith and a litmus test for conservatives to claim that global warming is a "hoax," presumably staged by evil scientists bent on world domination. This incredibly dangerous ostrich-like thinking is nearly universal on the right wing and in the Republican Party, and yesterday we ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science
Today at UCLA, a group of high profile climate change deniers are featured at a conference titled: "Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny?" By itself this is nothing special; climate "skeptics" are always having these echo chamber conferences, to keep the deluded masses fully stocked up with hooey. But this ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Creationism, Anti-Muslim, American Freedom Alliance
In Australia, climate scientists are being targeted with a rabid hate mail campaign and death threats. The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety. Scientists at universities in NSW and Queensland have ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Death Threats
A fatuous post by the anonymous blogger "Allahpundit" full of debunked right wing tropes (Climategate? he must be kidding) leads to a deluge of stunningly ignorant, hateful comments directed toward Mitt Romney for stating that he accepts the science of climate change: Romney: Sure, I believe in man-made global warming ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Hot Air, Idiocy
DERPIn a congressional hearing this week titled "UN Climate Talks and Power Politics — It's Not About the Temperature," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher came up with one of the more bizarre right wing climate change denial fantasies in recent memory; Rohrabacher says scientists need to start addressing the greenhouse gases emitted ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Dana Rohrabacher
Jacob Weisberg asks: Birtherism, the debt ceiling, climate change, evolution: Are Republicans losing their grip on reality? At a press conference last week, someone asked Chris Christie for his views on evolution vs. creationism. "That's none of your business," the New Jersey governor barked in response. This minor incident, which barely ...
Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Denial, Creationism, War on Science, Magical Thinking
A USA Today editorial makes an excellent point about the Republican Party's default anti-science stance, comparing climate change deniers to Birthers. Late last week, the nation's pre-eminent scientific advisory group, the National Research Council arm of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a report called "America's Climate Choices." As scientific ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Denial, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Birthers